Drop down lists in powerpoint.

[Guest]

So here's a question. I've used powerpoint to build a template for people to
complete - the end game being that they create a presentation in a standard
format. There are certain fields in the template that I want to restrict the
values of. I can do this by adding a ListBox however this is only active when
viewing the slide show and not when editting - this is not what I want to do
as my target audience will be editting and refining the slide show over time
and I want to control a few values - any ideas?

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

So here's a question. I've used powerpoint to build a template for people to
complete - the end game being that they create a presentation in a standard
format. There are certain fields in the template that I want to restrict the
values of. I can do this by adding a ListBox however this is only active when
viewing the slide show and not when editting - this is not what I want to do
as my target audience will be editting and refining the slide show over time
and I want to control a few values - any ideas?

To exercise any substantial amount of control like this, you pretty much need to
create an add-in and require your users to install it in order to use your
templates.

That involves a fair amount of VBA coding; if that's not a problem, have a look
at the VBA/Programming of the PPT FAQ at http://www.pptfaq.com for starters.